Remember how we could barely believe that a car company could emerge from the ether and start construction on a massive Nevada production facility? Guess what! Faraday Future’s $21 million behind on construction payments.

Automotive News dug up that Faraday Future owes its construction company a solid $21 million on its proposed Nevada factory, budgeted in total to one billion dollars. Here’s the meat of the story:

In an Oct. 10 letter, Robert Gay, vice president and project executive at AECOM — which is overseeing $500 million of work on the roughly $1 billion, 3 million-square-foot plant — cites an unpaid $21 million deposit, due in September, to an escrow account to cover material costs and subcontractor work. A copy of the letter was obtained by Automotive News.﻿

At first it wasn’t exactly clear to me how critical an issue this was to the project’s financial security, confidence and credibility. However, AECOM specifically states in its letter that this is “a critical metric to project financial security and maintaining confidence and credibility with our project subcontractors and suppliers.” Well then.

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Automotive News reached out to Faraday Future, which replied that its relationship with AECOM is continuing and “strong.”